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1984 Vs. Brave New World
Imagine a world in which people are produced in factories, a world lost
of all freedom and individuality, a world where people are exiled or “disappear”
for breaking the mold. Both 1984 by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley’s
Brave New World are startling depictions of such a society. Although these
novels are of fictional worlds, control of the future may be subtly evolving and
becoming far worse than Huxley or Orwell could ever have imagined. Each
society destroys the freedom of the individual through various controlling
methods such as the denial of language and literature, a caste system and
conditioning.
One way in which each society controls is by limiting the language and
literature of every citizen. In 1984, a language called Newspeak is devised in
order to narrow all thought into one mode. There are three categories of
Newspeak vocabulary: A, B and C. The A vocabulary consists of words used
in......

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